An angry woman forced Qatar airline plane to make an emergency landing after she discovered mid-flight that her husband was apparently cheating on her.
The woman, an Iranian national, was travelling from Doha to Bali with her husband and child on Sunday when the incident happened, India’s Hindustan Times reported Tuesday, AFP says.
As the woman’s husband slept, she used his hand to unlock his fingerprint-protected phone, revealing the alleged affair in all its sordid detail.
Angered by the discovery, the woman reportedly started to hit her husband. The cabin crew intervened but were unable to calm the situation.
The inflight episode spiralled out of control, prompting the pilots to make an unscheduled stop in the southern Indian city if Chennai.
An unnamed security official to the paper that the couple and their child were taken off the plane, which then resumed its journey to Indonesia.
“The family spent the day at Chennai airport and was sent to Kuala Lumpur by a Batik Air flight. No police action was taken,” the official said.
